HP Operations Manager

Applying tools to managed nodes, services, and messages


Tools are applications, scripts, and commands that help you perform necessary tasks in your environment, such as launching corrective actions or diagnostic tools. HPOM provides many such out-of-the-box tools to make managing your environment easier. The tools available to you are determined by your administrator and are contained in tool groups in the Tools folder in the HP Operations Manager console tree. To view tools, select a tools folder to display the tools it contains in the details pane.
Note NOTE:
Predefined tools in HPOM have no versioning. If you modify one of the predefined tools, and later perform an upgrade to your current product version, this upgrade will overwrite any modifications you made to the tool. Only tools that you created will be saved and will reappear after the upgrade.

You can apply tools to selected managed services, nodes, or messages. In some cases, you can view the results of the tool application to see if it failed or succeeded using the Tool Status dialog box. If the tool was configured to run on your console, status is not displayed. For tools running in locations other than the console, you can see the output of a tool application if Command Generates Output was specified when your administrator configured the tool.

For example, you might specify that a report be generated for a selected service, then launched to run on the node where the service is running. You would then view the results of the launch and take further action, such as stopping or rerunning the tool, if necessary.

You can apply tools using either of these methods:

Note NOTE:
To use HP Operations Manager tools for UNIX nodes, you must first deploy instrumentation to those nodes.

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